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Don’t Look Back **** (1967, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Grossman) – Classic Movie Review 4313

Bob Dylan’s tour of the UK in 1965 comes under the scrutiny of director D A Pennebaker’s cameras in a deservedly famous, pioneering 1967 fly-on-the-wall rockumentary, which has a sharp eye for the boredom of the […]

Sep, 07

Last Holiday *** (2006, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4285

Queen Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd in an amusing and enjoyable remake of the 1950 British semi-classic Last Holiday with Alec Guinness, in a project intended for John Candy but shelved on his death. Queen Latifah plays […]

Sep, 02

California Suite *** (1978, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Herb Edelman) – Classic Movie Review 4021

Maggie Smith is on Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winning form as an English theatre star nominated for an Oscar, in the 1978 Neil Simon comedy film California Suite. Director Herbert Ross’s 1978 comedy film California Suite […]

Jul, 14

Summer Holiday ***½ (1963, Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, The Shadows, Ron Moody, Lionel Murton, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 3960

‘It’s the craziest Four-Way love affair that ever shook up the folks back home!’ Director Peter Yates’s 1963 traditional British wish-fulfilment fantasy musical Summer Holiday is a lively and engaging vehicle for the 22-year-old Cliff […]

Jul, 02

The Silence [Tystnaden] ***** (1963, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström, Birger Malmsten) – Classic Movie Review 3932

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s provocative 1963 Swedish classic challenged the censor at the time for being sexually explicit. In the UK, the chief censor was in holiday when the film was approved. The controversy over the film resulted […]

Jun, 29

3:10 to Yuma ****½ (1957, Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Richard Jaeckel) Classic Movie Review 3907

Delmer Daves’s 1957 classic film 3:10 to Yuma is a suspenseful, masterly Fifties Western of the High Noon school, with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin ideally cast. Based on a 1953 short story by Elmore […]

Jun, 25

What’s New Pussycat **** (1965, Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3891

Director Clive Donner’s 1965 comedy film is the quintessence of stylish, wacky Sixties nonsense. It is Woody Allen’s first film both as an actor and a writer, and stars Peter O’Toole as Michael James, an infamously compulsive […]

Jun, 19

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